Although a few months ago the people in charge of GIMP announced the launch of a development version with support for Apple Silicon, the brand new architecture of the new generation Macs, it is now when that version is considered stable and its download is made available to any user who wants to install it.
Putting ourselves in context, GIMP is the world’s most popular free software image editor, a veteran project that is always referred to as the free alternative to Photoshop…. because it is, always depending on the tastes and needs of each one, about adding. After all, GIMP is a community project, while Photoshop is a professional product with a multi-billion dollar company behind it.
It is worth clarifying to try to avoid the typical comment that GIMP does not reach the level of Photoshop and the like. The truth is that GIMP is a very powerful application that can do a great job in the right hands, and that meets the needs of many of the users who hack Photoshop. Then there are the professionals and their sovereign decisions. Obviously, Photoshop is the industry benchmark for a reason.
On the other hand, we have Apple Silicon, a project under which those from Cupertino develop their next-generation APUs, the M1 and M2 chips, their variations and those to come, a bet that has certainly revolutionized Apple laptops and that there is no going back. In fact, everything points to the opposite, that the future of all Apple equipment goes through its own processors.
Well, if you have one of those computers that already works with Apple Silicon and you were missing GIMP, stop doing it, because the stable version of GIMP 2.10.32 is already available for Apple M1 and M2 and, in addition, it is considered as stable, worth the redundancy. If you are going to download GIMP for your Apple computer, remember that you can choose:
Please note that we now provide two DMG packages, one for each architecture, not a single universal package. The website will try to detect what architecture you are on, but if it doesn’t detect it correctly (detection is not so easy on some browsers), be careful to choose the version for the correct hardware (“for Intel” or “for Apple Silicon” )”, they explain in the official note.
